Health care bill already passed?

Well, here's the political buzz today. Dems have pretty much conceded that Coakley has lost Massachusetts. Even the White House has privately conceded. So how are they going to handle this shocking unbelievable loss in a Democrat stronghold and of "Kennedy's seat" whose signature was passing health care?

Of course, they'll cheat. They won't listen to the people, even their own constituents. They won't stop their suicide march. They won't ease up on this monstrous destruction of our health care system.

No. They'll just try to get the House Dems to agree with everything that was passed in the Senate bill and then sign off on it, including the cadillac tax on union health care plans. They'll twist their arms until the "people's representatives" do what the leadership wants.

Monstrous.

The second path is a different kind of heavy lift. The Senate does not, in fact, need to act on the bill anymore. It has already passed a version. With Brown seated, the White House could prevail upon House Democrats to pass the Senate bill as written, making the same case it has made all along: It's this or nothing. That would be a heavy lift on both the left and right of the caucus. But again, imaginable.